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| Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Bearden, Romare, 1911-1988. History of African-American artists. New York : Pantheon Books, c1993 (OCoLC)622190939 |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Romare Bearden; Harry Henderson |
| ISBN: | 0394570162 9780394570167 |
| OCLC Number: | 25368962 |
| Description: | xvii, 541 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm. |
| Contents: | The late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries : The question of Joshua Johnston ; Robert S. Duncanson ; Edward M. Bannister ; Grafton T. Brown ; Edmonia Lewis ; Henry Ossawa Tanner ; Other significant early artists -- The twenties and the Black Renaissance : Aaron Douglas ; Richard Barthé ; Archibald J. Motley, Jr. ; Palmer C. Hayden ; Augusta Savage ; Malvin Gray Johnson ; W.H. Johnson ; Hale A. Woodruff ; Sargent Johnson -- Emergence of African-American artists during the Depression : Three influential people-- Alain Leroy Locke, Charles Christopher Seifert, Mary Beattie Brady ; Charles H. Alston ; Eldzier Cortor ; Beauford Delaney ; Joseph Delaney ; Jacob Lawrence ; Norman Lewis ; Hughie Lee-Smith ; Ellis Wilson -- The naive, self-taught artists : William Edmondson ; Horace Pippin -- Art departments in African-American colleges : James A. Porter ; Lois Mailou Jones ; James Lesesne Wells -- Post-World War II African-American artists : Charles White ; Elizabeth Catlett ; John T. Biggers ; Carroll H. Simms ; Alma W. Thomas ; Ed Wilson ; James W. Washington, Jr. ; Richard Mayhew. |
| Responsibility: | Romare Bearden & Harry Henderson. |
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Abstract:
Examines the lives and careers of over fifty African-American artists, and the relation of their work to prevailing artistic, social, and political trends in America and throughout the world.
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- African American art.
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